All posts tagged "Donald Trump Jr."

Newly leaked text messages offer a rare look at how Kimberly Guilfoyle handled the collapse of her engagement to Donald Trump Jr.

Guilfoyle fired off a string of angry denials and attacks on Trump Jr.'s future wife, Bettina Anderson, after photos surfaced of the pair together, according to messages Kentucky attorney and GOP donor Eric Deters shared with the Daily Mail for a Saturday report.

Deters, who hosted Guilfoyle and Don Jr. at his annual Patriot's Day Freedom Fest, said things between them had gone cold by the September 2024 event. He claimed Don Jr. refused to sit near Guilfoyle or speak to her in the VIP tent and during car rides to and from the airport....

A judge cleared the BBC to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner after Secret Service protection thwarted in-person delivery.

On Friday, Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein posted that U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett granted the BBC's motion for alternative service in Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster, allowing the network to deliver the subpoenas by certified mail to the trio's home and business addresses and by email to Trump's lawyers.

The BBC argued the president's eldest son, daughter and son-in-law likely have "personal knowledge and possession of discoverable information" relevant to the case. Lett wrote that the network "has demonstrated the difficulties with effecting personal service" on the three, who are protected "as members of the sitting President's immediate family."...

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board delivered a blunt warning to President Donald Trump’s family on Friday as scrutiny continues to grow over Donald Trump Jr.’s business dealings: “Better lawyer up.”

“Does the Trump family know what is about to hit them?” the board asked, warning of subpoenas, investigations and congressional testimony over the family’s cryptocurrency investments “and other deals that have enriched them while President Trump is in office?”

The editorial board pointed to Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) as a reason the Trump family “might want to pay attention.” ...

Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiancée has used her ambassadorship to promote one foreign firm while keeping its paid lobbyist at her side.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, whom President Donald Trump named ambassador to Greece, has repeatedly pressed Balkan governments to work with Aktor Group, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Aktor is a Greek construction company that only recently moved into the natural gas business.

Christos Marafatsos, who lobbies for the firm, has joined Guilfoyle at so many meetings that some foreign officials took him for her chief of staff. ...

President Donald Trump acknowledged Friday that his eldest son may not have conducted a background check before accepting lavish wedding celebrations from a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin.

Asked in the Oval Office whether it was appropriate for Donald Trump Jr. to accept the gift, Trump insisted it was “totally allowed” and repeatedly claimed he had heard his son reimbursed oligarch Umar Kremlev.

“As I understand, he paid him back,” Trump said. “He didn’t want to have that. So I hear he paid him back.” ...

President Donald Trump has signaled who he would like to be president in 2028 — and it's not Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, an analyst revealed on Monday.

Jonathan V. Last, editor of The Bulwark, argued that Trump Media & Technology Group — the parent company of the president's Truth Social platform — has moved to launch a new product giving subscribers access to posts before they go live in the public feed, calling it potentially "the greatest trick in the history of insider trading."

It would give Trump and his family access to information before it's released to the public, and allow them to sell off that information — all tied to market manipulation, social media platforms and stock trading, Last wrote. And it's complicated....